Ear-muff



UNITED 4 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW L. BRITTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EAR-MUFF.

SPEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,033, dated NovemberZ, 1886.

Application filed April 13, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ANDREW L. BR TTON, a. citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Ear-Muffs, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the frame of an ear-muff embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a section of a portion thereof in line as :20, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures;

My invention consists of the frames of the ear-pieces, connected with the head-piece in a simple and inexpensive manner, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the frames of the ear-pieces of an ear-muff, and B the head-piece, said frames and head-piece being formed of wire.

- Connected with each frame A is an ear, 0, formed of a single piece of material, bent' around the frame A, and formed on the outweirdly-projecting ends of the headpiece are eyes D, an ear and eye being placed side by side, and through the same is passed a rivet or pin, E, which has a head ateach end, thus connecting the ear and eye, and consequently Serial No. 198,665. (No model.)

connecting the frame and head-piece, it being evident that the frames of the ear-pieces may turn on the ends of the head-piece, so as to conform to the sides of the head of the wearer and set nicely in position, the connection of the frames and head-piece being simple and inexpensive.

On the inner side of the head-piece B is a pad, F, which prevents contactof the metal of the head-piece with the head of the wearer.

The frames of the headpieces will be covered with suitable fabric or material or otherwise finished. g

I am aware that it is not new to secure the head-wire to the frames of the ear-muffs by means of joints forming pivotal connections, and such I do not broadly claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A frame for an ear-muff, provided with the ear 0, having an opening therein, in combination with the head-piece B, having an out Wardly-bent portion with eye D therein, and the pin E, passing through the eye D and the opening in the ear G, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

A. L. BRIrToN.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. 1?. GRANT. 

